EIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY BUCHAREST - European Ideas Network
EIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY BUCHAREST - European Ideas Network
EIN SUMMER UNIVERSITY BUCHAREST - European Ideas Network
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Mario MAURO<br />
<strong>European</strong> <strong>Ideas</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />
Va d e m e c u m o f t h e s p e a k e r s<br />
Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Special committee on the policy challenges and<br />
budgetary resources for a sustainable <strong>European</strong> Union after 2013 and Delegation for relations with<br />
the United States<br />
Substitute of Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis and Delegation for<br />
relations with South Africa<br />
Degree in philosophy (1985). Lecturer.<br />
Member of the <strong>European</strong> Parliament (since 1999); Vice-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary<br />
Assembly, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (1999-2004); Vice-President of<br />
the <strong>European</strong> Parliament (2004-2009). Chief whip of the Popolo della Libertà (PDL) party in the<br />
<strong>European</strong> Parliament (since 2009).<br />
Personal representative of the OSCE Chair-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, with particular<br />
reference to discrimination against Christians (2009).<br />
Professor under contract to the <strong>European</strong> University of Rome, ‘Fundamental human rights in natural law and in international<br />
conventions’ and ‘History of the <strong>European</strong> institutions’ (since 2008).<br />
Jaime MAYOR OREJA<br />
Jaime MAYOR OREJA was born in 1951. Elected from San Sebastián. Agronomist Engineer.<br />
Member of the National Executive Committee of the PP (1999). Former President and spokesman<br />
of the Grupo Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament. Appointed Vice-Secretary-General of the<br />
PP (1996) and Honorary President of the PP in the Basque Country. Minister for Tourism in the<br />
Pre-autonomous Government of the Basque Country (1980); Member for Guipúzcoa. Government<br />
Delegate in the Basque Country (1982). President and spokesman of the Coalición Popular in the<br />
Basque Regional Parliament (1984-1986). Elected autonomous Member of Parliament within the<br />
UCD (1980). President of the Grupo Parlamentario Popular in the Basque Regional Parliament (2001-<br />
2004). Member of the Cortes for Vizcaya (1989). PP national member of parliament for Álava in the I,<br />
IV, VI, VII and VIII parliamentary terms. Minister of the Interior from 1996-2001. MEP since 2004.<br />
Head of the Spanish Delegation to the EPP Group. Committees: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home<br />
Affairs (Member) Foreign Affairs (Substitute); Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (Substitute).<br />
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